Archive - Think Inside of The Box By Xinjiang

SEO: The Secret Sauce for Making Online Grocery Shopping Popular

Search Engine Optimization(SEO) has been one of the problems because of the increasing adoption of Single Page Application (SPA). Continue reading on…

Nov 8, 2021 •

This is Xinjiang’s Newsletter, a newsletter about software engineering and life.

Nov 8, 2021 •

January 2018

Order Status, The Long Awaited Feature

It has been quite a journey since we released Order Status, a feature that will allow our customers to check their order details on delivery day, get…

Jan 24, 2018 •

2017 Year At A Glance

Food & Cooking Exploring different cuisines and cooking in different ways have been the main theme for my year of 2017. I’ve tried different kinds of…

Jan 2, 2018 •

October 2017

When The Night Is Falling, We Need The Dark Theme

Update: A chrome extension made using the same technique is available on Google web store now. Like a lot of people working in this industry, I prefer…

Oct 16, 2017 •

August 2017

What Are The Two Hard Things In Computer Science?

Naming things and vertically centering things There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton…

Aug 21, 2017 •

TD, Or Not TD, That Is The Question

The Battle with HTML Email Templates HTML Emails Nearly all online users receive tons of newsletters, advertisements, and account notification emails…

Aug 7, 2017 •

July 2017

A Not-so-brief Landing Page History of Peapod

The other day, my friends were surprised when I mentioned that Peapod was founded in 1989. They were doubtful that people even did online shopping 28…

Jul 31, 2017 •

Web Accessibility: Designing The User Experience With All Users In Mind

I joined Peapod about six months ago. One of the major reasons I took the job is that the development team gave me the impression of social…

Jul 24, 2017 •

June 2017

Smart Shopping Gets Smarter

Smart Shopping Gets Smarter: Peapod’s Mobile App <a…

Jun 3, 2017 •

February 2017

Cooking & Coding

I’m always the guy who carries a great passion for food. In the past year, I’ve been experimenting cooking various styles of cuisines at home. Some of…

Feb 12, 2017 •

February 2016

Why Scala Can Help You to Build a More Reliable Service

I’ve been hunting for a language to build applications which should be easy to be deployed, managed and tested for quite a while. Well, coming from a…

Feb 3, 2016 •

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